Comments on: Like Cher’s Many Final Tours

By: cj

cj — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:46:22 +0000

I want to keep reading your blog too.

cj x

By: Arturo

Arturo — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:33:36 +0000

Hi Karen
Could it be that you are getting that feeling if you’re reading the blogs through ashtangi.net? That probably opens up to everyone’s blog who is a member of the net, and people are talking about many random things, not just yoga. I usually go to a few sites every morning and only once in a while to many others. I think you make some valid points and I have to email an invitation request if you decide to do this. However, since yours was the first yoga blog I ever read, I might mention how I found out about it. I subscribe to the emails of the ashtanga community in Mountainview (yoga is youth). They use it mainly as a platform to let people in their ashtanga community of things of interests, such as hikes, music shows, the birth of Adarsh & Heileen’s baby, the publishing of their annual calendar. One day, P. mentioned that he had come accross your blog and recommended it to the group. This was about the time that Anne Finstead, who taught there, was blogging from Mysore. If you were to go private, there would be people in the ashtanga world that would not have the benefit of reading your blog. That’s my opinion. I haven’t seen blog wars recently. There is one blogger whose comments and blog I never read, for reasons similar to the ones you list.

(0v0) I love your writing. You’re right that its complexity makes it inaccessible. Personally, I’ve written too much this weekend.
Cheers,
Arturo

By: susan

susan — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:01:47 +0000

Karen, I dropped you an email. I want to keep reading your blog, especially to hear The Cop’s new names for the rest of the poses in primary series.

By: (0v0)

(0v0) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:25:31 +0000

Interesting about the crust Laksmi. I wonder if in your case it’s mostly about not taking things personally. It’s not like you become absent from the situation of conflict at work and just shut down: it’s more like you ask yourself to see it clearly, understand it’s not about you and that other people are being crazy, and then take action that’s way more sane because you’re not distracted with being all hurt about it. Maybe I’m wrong. I’ve just thought several times when you mentioned conflict at work that you got through it well not so much because you weren’t inVOLVED… but because you weren’t inSANE.

Maybe that’s the same as having a thick skin.

In a sense, I agree with wanting not to have a thick skin. I want to be receptive in general. And I’m really interested in people in themselves, for some dumb reason. I admire accessibility and transparency. How that interacts with the whole blogging thing is always interesting.

(In my case blog-wise, I’m sort of transparent, but almost nobody realizes this because my bad writing feels dense–inaccessible. But ironically, that density keeps the nasties away, at least from the comments. As the writing gets better, maybe all of that will change.)

By: laksmi

laksmi — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:40:24 +0000

oh, okay, as usual, i read the old post before the new one. anyway, if you do go private, count me in!
As to crust, I have a bit of crust, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing. I mean, it can be seen as a way of processing: it just doesn’t really go in. I have to handle angry parents at my job and over the course of 5 years of angry parents, for the most part I can take it without taking it in. Seems like I’m totally missing all the bs–I haven’t been around the blogs much this week so I missed whatever is going on.

By: OLDDUDE

OLDDUDE — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:12:40 +0000

Yes, there is alot of bs in cyberspace. Thats why your site is refreshing. We can count on you for an interesting read without too much irrelevant angst. Stay in the light!

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:56:50 +0000

You are entitled to have as much publicity or as much privacy as you want. You are even entitled to change your privacy levels as many times as you want. I can’t understand why you should be a free target for the meanies. You wouldn’t put up with someone being nasty at you in a room, right? Why do it here?